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Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

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Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

We didn't find that it [London] come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too...

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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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Charles Dickens: Here's richness!...

Charles Dickens: Here's richness!...

Here's richness!

Source: (Mr Squeers) Nicholas Nickleby, Ch.5
-- Charles...

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Charles Dickens: Meaty jelly, too,...

Charles Dickens: Meaty jelly, too,...

Meaty jelly, too, especially when a little salt, which is the case when there's ham, is mellering to the...

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Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long...

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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
-- Charles Dickens,...

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George Eliot: If we had...

George Eliot: If we had...

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...

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George Eliot: Education was almost...

George Eliot: Education was almost...

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

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George Eliot: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

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Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jane Austen: A large income...

Jane Austen: A large income...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Source: In The...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Jane Austen: It will, I...

Jane Austen: It will, I...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of...

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Jane Austen: There are certainly...

Jane Austen: There are certainly...

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve...

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Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Source:...

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